Excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
"See here, now, Mr. Wilson," said George, coming up and seating himself determinately down in front of him, "look at me, now. Don't I sit before you, every way, just as much a man as you are? Look at my face, -- look at my hands, -- look at my body," and the young man drew himself up proudly; "why am I not a man, as much as anybody? Well, Mr. Wilson, hear what I can tell you. I had a father -- one of your Kentucky gentlemen -- who didn't think enough of me to keep me from being sold with his dogs and horses, to satisfy the estate, when he died. I saw my mother put up at sheriff's sale, with her seven children. They were sold before her eyes, one by one, all to different masters; and I was the youngest. She came and kneeled down before old Mas'r, and begged him to buy her with me, that she might have at least one child with her; and he kicked her away with his heavy boot. I saw him do it; and the last that I heard was her moans and screams, when I was tied to his horse's neck, to be carried off to his place."
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell & Co., 1897.
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John Cabell Breckinridge
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/common/generic/VP_John_Breckinridge.htmhttp://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/john-breckinridge.html
http://elections.harpweek.com/1860/bio-1860-full.asp?uniqueid=4&year=1860
Robert Smalls
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http://www.historynet.com/robert-smalls-commander-of-the-planter-during-the-american-civil-war.htm
Edmund Ruffin
http://www.tulane.edu/~latner/Ruffin.htmlhttp://www.civilwar.si.edu/slavery_ruffin.html
http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/chron/civilwarnotes/ruffin.html
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Rose O'Neal Greenhow
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Stand Watie
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Ely Parker
http://www.pbs.org/civilwar/war/biographies/parker.htmlhttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/WWparkerEly.htm
http://www.defense.gov/specials/nativeam02/injustice.html
http://aiwa.americanindiansource.com/parker.html
Mary Surrat
http://www.history.com/news/2011/04/11/who-was-mary-surratt/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/Was-Mary-Surratt-a-Lincoln-Conspirator.html
Info on recent movie, and at the bottom describes who she is.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2011-04-14-conspiratorcov14_CV_N.htm
Roger Taney
http://www.historycentral.com/bio/ant/Taney.html
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h250.html
Harriet Beecher Stowe
(Great resource! Be sure to navigate throughout the website)http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/hbs/
(Video)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bonus-video/lincolns-young/
(scroll to the middle)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/general-article/lincolns-literary/
(What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/foster/peopleevents/e_cabin.html
Excerpt from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
"See here, now, Mr. Wilson," said George, coming up and seating himself determinately down in front of him, "look at me, now. Don't I sit before you, every way, just as much a man as you are? Look at my face, -- look at my hands, -- look at my body," and the young man drew himself up proudly; "why am I not a man, as much as anybody? Well, Mr. Wilson, hear what I can tell you. I had a father -- one of your Kentucky gentlemen -- who didn't think enough of me to keep me from being sold with his dogs and horses, to satisfy the estate, when he died. I saw my mother put up at sheriff's sale, with her seven children. They were sold before her eyes, one by one, all to different masters; and I was the youngest. She came and kneeled down before old Mas'r, and begged him to buy her with me, that she might have at least one child with her; and he kicked her away with his heavy boot. I saw him do it; and the last that I heard was her moans and screams, when I was tied to his horse's neck, to be carried off to his place."
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Thomas Y. Cromwell & Co., 1897.